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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 71766@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71766: 30.0.60; HarfBuzz is not used in the Cygwin-w32 build
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 05:34:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861q4lbvif.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22087552-7262-4963-ae11-60ed0895221c@cornell.edu> (message from Ken Brown on Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:18:31 -0400)

> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:18:31 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> 
> The HarfBuzz library is hard-coded as libharfbuzz-0.dll in 
> w32uniscribe.c, but this is only valid on MS-Windows.  On Cygwin the 
> library is cygharfbuzz-0.dll.  As a result, HarfBuzz is not used in the 
> Cygwin-w32 build.  The obvious fix is

Please install this on the emacs-30 branch if it's all that is needed.

> Before pushing this, I'd like to test it, but I don't know enough about 
> HarfBuzz to do that.  Can someone tell me how to test that HarfBuzz is 
> actually being used as intended?  All I've done so far is to start emacs 
> and note that the display looks reasonable.

Type "C-u C-x =" on some character, it should tell you what is the
backend (at the beginning of the font name).  I would also use "C-h h"
to compare the display with another configuration where you know
HarfBuzz is being used.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-25  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-25  1:18 bug#71766: 30.0.60; HarfBuzz is not used in the Cygwin-w32 build Ken Brown
2024-06-25  2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-25 15:36   ` Ken Brown

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